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Android BTFO
James Sullivan
Wyatt James
Garbage collecting > Reference counting
Reference counting never works with object oriented languages, because often you have to employ some pattern consisting of circular references through interfaces - in which case, you get memory leaks because the reference count never reaches zero.
Brandon Lewis
> never reaches zer
wut???
> what are weak references?
Luis Bell
*constantly overheats and thermal throttle*
Chase Ramirez
> t. brainlet
Gabriel Parker
hey it's that language that runs like shit unless you disable safety checks, generics, and managed references
Michael Sanchez
Reference counting still isn't high development as garbage collectors.
Chase Ortiz
And mark & sweep or generational garbage collection fixes that problem how?
Tyler Long
Garbage collectors are kinda neat in that they can compact memory. Other schemes usually don't do anything like that.
On the other hand, garbage collection is stupid in how it has to traverse through all kinds of data structures to know whether something can be deallocated or not. With manual memory magement you just know in advance when you can free it, whereas the garbage collector may have to traverse through some linked list 100 times in vain during the lifetime of some program.
Jonathan Jones
Garbage Collectors are literal garbage. That's one of the reasons Android performs like shit and has the worst memory management of any mainstrem OS.
Blake Torres
It just werks
Andrew Taylor
Swift is a good language. But whoever wrote the API are fucking idiots.
Bentley Powell
Cameron Peterson
Which API are you talking about?
Ryan Miller
Kotlin native had ARC too.
Easton Diaz
My 6gb of ddr3 doesn't need this
Brayden Peterson
Brody Jones
Java programming language is garbage too
Liam Flores
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Parker Jackson
>iBrainlets
Alexander Morris
>and has the worst memory management of any mainstrem OS.
I think you'll find that the app memory usage is actually quite reasonable.
Nathaniel Morales
makes perfect sense. ++ results in ugly code that doesn’t make sense for beginners.
Just use:
a += 1
It’s just 1 character longer, and makes much more sense
Ayden Taylor
>It’s just 1 character longer, and makes much more sense
it makes no more sense than a++, fuck off shill
Angel King
The two operations are not equivalent.
++ can be used inline.
Kayden Turner
Swift? That sounds like a language you wipe your ass with.
Isaac Ross
>> what are weak references?
Something that a programmer has to go out of their way to do. If you're using a library that doesn't do it internally when they should, you're completely SOL. It also means you end up relying on implementation details of classes you use, as you need to know whether you have to strongly or weakly reference a particular object in order to not get circular references.
Brandon Hughes
Wow so you're saying Apple has invented a technology to automatically collect all the garbage that isn't being referenced anymore? Incredible!
Nicholas Bell
Why doesn't it just throw itself out, then? Sounds like some shitty programming.
Chase Robinson
Isn't reference counting the least efficient way of garbage collection? Automic operations are quite expensive. Especially at language level.